NRA’s Answer To Newtown Tragedy? More Guns

In a press conference that bordered on laughable, the NRA listed a laundry lists of culprits that led to the Newtown massacre: violence in video games, gun-free school zones, the mentally ill crazy people conspiring to slaughter children, the news media and the entertainment industry.

Of course, NRA executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre didn’t blame the proliferation of guns and the easy access to rapid-fire assault weapons on the shooting tragedy that left 20 children and eight adults dead. Lapierre blamed legislation restricting guns on school campuses as making school children easy targets for insane killers.

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” Lapierre said.
In a wide-ranging speech, LaPierre offered the solution of more armed personnel in schools to defend our children. LaPierre also wants a national database to track people suffering from mental illness. It’s ironic that the NRA wants the government to track people with mental illness and put restrictions on the entertainment industry, but they don’t want any restrictions on guns.